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What’s in a name? Azerbaijan’s decision to stop using the name “Nagorno-Karabakh” is the latest chapter in the long history of contested terminology in the region. Our weekly Post-War Report.

Iran stands to be one of the winners of the new regional transportation map.

New pressure from Washington will make China look even closer at Central Asia.

Kyrgyzstan has received swathes of land while granting Uzbeks control over irrigation resources.

Amid heightened concerns about the fate of historic cultural heritage sites in Karabakh comes news that Azerbaijan has razed a three-year-old Armenian church. Our weekly Post-War Report.

Since shepherding Azerbaijan’s military victory last fall, Turkey has been on a Silk Road charm offensive. The challenge is turning talk into action.

Azerbaijan announced the drills shortly after its president issued aggressive statements about Armenian territory, leading to rumors among Armenians about a new war. Our weekly Post-War Report.

The timing of the arrest has again raised suspicions about a senior officer around whom rumors had long swirled.

The end of the war created cartographic complications that have real-life implications for people on the ground. So where will the line be drawn?

Two spy scandals involving well-regarded organizations speak to Armenians’ loss of faith in the international community, as well as the opposition’s interest in taking advantage of that mistrust. Our weekly Post-war Report.

Residents are torn whether to rebuild or leave: “If the Russians weren’t here, most people would have already left.”

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Last year’s war between Armenia and Azerbaijan could shake up trans-Caucasus trade, which has been dominated by Georgia for decades.

The emotive issue has gotten tangled up in demining, the ongoing search for the bodies of dead soldiers, and other difficult-to-solve problems.

In the middle of the country’s victorious war against Armenia, the chief of staff of the armed forces – long the subject of public rumors of “treason” – disappeared. He hasn’t been seen since.

Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan called another rally in which he accused the army chief of staff of working on the orders of the former regime.

The missiles didn’t explode and were out of date, Armenia’s prime minister complained. Some Russians saw those as fighting words. But Russia is still looking to expand its military activities in Armenia. Our weekly column.

Pashinyan called the appeal a “coup attempt” and rallied his supporters at a demonstration in Yerevan’s center.

Karabakh considers making Russian an official language, more restrictions on journalists, and Azerbaijan cracks down on illegal – and dangerous – visits to its newly retaken territories. Welcome to our new weekly column on the aftermath of the 2020 war.

Military officials deny suggestions that the base was contaminated.

Beijing is redefining “multilateralism” to better suit its needs.

For decades, Yerevan has wanted Turkey to end its blockade. Now it seems Ankara may be willing, but the mood in Yerevan has shifted.

The move comes as Azerbaijan is more assertively exercising its sovereignty in Karabakh, and Armenians are seeing Russia as a possible bulwark.

The prime minister has been badly weakened by the loss in the war.

Officials have yet to decide on the size of the fee.